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      Tishrei 5, 5771, 9/13/2010

      Poetry Submission: Tashlich Reflections - Rosh Hashanah


      Tashlich Reflections
      by Hadassah Simcha Kimsey


      Tashlich! The water reflects back...

          As we feel the weight of our sins!

      ******* OUR STONES*******

               We Cast...........Far Away...we see our face once again in the ripples
      of the wave!

               As far as the east is from the west...............So has Adonai
      removed them!
               Thrown the stones......Into the Sea....
               Our Sins............To be remembered no more!

      Teshuva!
          As we turn around!

      ******* OUR HEARTS*******

               Return.........Walk right
               .............He is waiting at the end of the path to receive you again
               Walk Again...........Into open arms..See His face in the ripples of
      the wave!

               .............Feel Adonai surround you with His protection and His
      Shekinah!

      Tashlich Reflections!
          Now you have made it right again!
          His Image in you made new!
          Through Teshuvah you have made the water clear again!

      Tashlich......Teshuva...... Reflections of our Heart made New Again!

       

      @Copyright 2009 Nancy Joy Kimsey (Hadassah Simcha Kimsey)

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       with the subject line: Poetry Submission.







      Av 14, 5770, 7/25/2010

      Poetry Submission: Clocks click by Gutman Locks


      Clocks click

           by G. Locks
       

      Clocks click
      Time slides
      Brains hide
      Memory hushes
      Skin dries
      Hair falls
      Mirrors appall
      Stride smalls
      Face wrinkles
      Teeth blink
      Height ducks
      Ambitions taper
      Activities sag
      Bones narrow
      Muscles droop
      Voice creaks
      Knees squeak
      Body bends
      Appetite dims
      Doctors pat
      Sex was
      Sleep’s paltry
      And Heaven calls,
      Yet, now’s
      the best years of ‘em all.
      Thank G-d


      G. Locks
      Old City, Jerusalem

      http://www.thereisone.com


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      bbresky@israelnationalradio.com with the subject line: Poetry Submission.







      Av 12, 5770, 7/23/2010

      Poetry Submission: Fed Up! Words from a Danish-American


      Fed Up!
      by J.P.Christiansen

      We love the Jewish people!
      Get it,
      vapid public commentators,
      and various members of 'think-tanks',
      high on yourselves from intellectualization
      and abstraction on theory,
      and not physical involvement,
      for the survival of the state of Israel,
      ready as you are to condemn an out-post of freedom,
      surrounded by religious insanity.

      We love the Jewish people!
      Get it,
      European and US political cowards,
      denying from your deep, comfortable couches,
      or safe, protected, tax-payer offices,
      the right of Israel to defend itself
      against surrounding Muslim enemies
      wishing only a second Holocaust for Israel.

      We love the Jewish people!
      Get it, Muslims?

      You have a long way to go,
      and a lot of religious insanity to make up for,
      before you’ve earned the right to claim membership
      in our global community of hard-won democracies;
      in fact, you have about 1400 years to go,
      so stop acting-out like children denied toys,
      and get your Allah-crazed act together!

      The civilized world is just about fed up
      with your juvenile antics and temper-tantrums,
      so grow the hell up,
      and in the mean-time,
      get back on your ADHD medication!

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      To submit your poem of Jewish and/or Israeli content email bbresky@israelnationalradio.com with the subject line: Poetry Submission.







      Av 11, 5770, 7/22/2010

      Poetry Submission: I am the creator - Isaac Rosenbaum


      I am the creator
      Isaac A. Rosenbaum

      15/07/2010


      I create the golden string and I grow the wings to soar like an eagle
      I spread the wisdom of being in joy and love in abundance
      I pick up the spirits of the downtrodden and lift them so high
      That their souls soar and they sing and dance with joy
      This world I create of love of joy of utter bliss of wish fullness
      I am the creator of all that I see and manifest into reality
      I only need to think the thought of joy and love blessed blissfulness
      And the world obliges it
      The dream stuff of loveliness becomes reality
      And then I know I am the master creator of all blissful achievement of success
      And fulfilment and joy of financial freedom of luxury and security of love
      And beauty and music and art of dance of song of joy
      And creativity comes from my mouth and my mind

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      Av 10, 5770, 7/21/2010

      Poetry Submission: LAMENTATIONS 5 by Isaac Mozeson


      LAMENTATIONS 5 
      by Isaac Mozeson

                                          
      I
       
      Score O’ Lord
      what has befallen us,
      feel and share our recent shame.
       
      Anatevka's gone to the dogs;
      our synagogues
      are Soviet museums.
      A generation's orphaned
      of our Father, leaving us
      widows' fears and survivors' guilt.
       
      II
       
      We've paid the train ride to our own cremations;
      we've literally dug our own graves.
       
      We’re up to our necks
      in ghettos and gallows:
      even in labor camps
      we’re worked to our bones.
       
      And where the Axis let us flee,
      the Allies turned us back.
       
      III
       
      Our fathers took religion
      as the air they breathed:
      so now we gasp for breath in chambers
      of horrors forewarned in your forgotten book.
                 
      The subject Slavs enslaved us,
      happy to hunt the enemy of their enemy;
      the Anglos delayed liberation;
      sparing train tracks, sparing useful killers.
       
      We risked and bartered our bodies for bread,
      between the hungry mouths
      of machine guns.
       
      Our skin crusted in the ovens,
      with no meat on our bones.
       
       
      IV
       
      Farmwives who kept family purity
      laws were gang-raped
      along with Berlin debutantes.
       
      Surgeons were strung by their hands;
      rabbis beards were ripped away.
       
      Selections sawed up families;
      children swept like wood chips.
       
      Sages were stolen from their studies,
      schoolboys plucked from piano lessons.
       
      V
      We were numbed past fear;
      hope became sarcasm.
       
      They'd half proven that
      we're not chosen,
      a genocide for a deicide.
       
      After this our courage was crushed,
      our vision darkly dimmed.
       
      Who could see an Israel
      in Britain's Palestine?
       
      Yet the sun could never set
      On the empire of our Lord.
       
      VI
       
      Why did it take forever
      to remember us?
      You abandoned us too long
      to the free will of men.
       
      Turn history back to us, Lord,
      and we'll turn it back to you.

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      This interpretive rendition of Lamentations (Aichah)
      chapter 5 is in Isaac Mozeson's Collected Poems (Amazon Kindle, 2009)

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